Title
Stress in Agile Software Development: Practices and Outcomes.
Abstract
Stress is an important workplace issue, affecting both the health of individuals, and the health of organizations. Early advocacy for Agile Software Development suggested it might help avoid stress, with practices that emphasize a sustainable pace, and self-organizing teams. Our analysis of a 2014 survey, however, suggested that stress might still be commonplace in Agile teams, especially for those with less experience. We also noticed that newcomers to Agile emphasized technical, rather than collaborative, practices, and speculated this might explain the stress. We explored this in our analysis of a follow-up survey conducted in 2016, and report our findings in this paper. We show that there are a variety of factors involved, and that avoiding stress is associated with both collaborative and technical practices, and a range of outcomes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-91602-6_18
AGILE PROCESSES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND EXTREME PROGRAMMING, XP 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stress,Agile,Software development
Pace,Agile software development,Software development,Process management,Business
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
314
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Meier1254.56
Martin Kropp2266.65
Craig Anslow314025.77
Robert Biddle452845.50